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County and City Data Book [United States] Consolidated File: County Data, 1947-1977 (ICPSR 7736)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

This data collection is a compendium of data for all counties in the
United States for the period 1944 to 1977. The data provide diverse
information such as local government activities, population
estimates and characteristics, and housing unit descriptors. Also included
is information on local government revenues, property taxes, capital
outlay, debts, expenditures on education, highways, public
welfare, health and hospitals, and police, as well as information on
births, deaths, schooling, labo... (more info)

This data collection is a compendium of data for all counties in the
United States for the period 1944 to 1977. The data provide diverse
information such as local government activities, population
estimates and characteristics, and housing unit descriptors. Also included
is information on local government revenues, property taxes, capital
outlay, debts, expenditures on education, highways, public
welfare, health and hospitals, and police, as well as information on
births, deaths, schooling, labor force, employment, family income,
family characteristics, electoral votes, and housing characteristics.
Additional variables provide information on manufacturing, retail and
wholesale trade, banking, mineral industries, farm population,
agriculture, crime, and weather. Users may also be interested in the related data collection, COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK [UNITED STATES] CONSOLIDATED
FILE: CITY DATA, 1944-1977 (ICPSR 7735).

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. County and City Data Book [United States] Consolidated File: County Data, 1947-1977. ICPSR07736-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-09-18. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07736.v2

Universe:
Individual states, the District of Columbia, and counties
or county equivalents for which data were published in the County and
City Data Books, in the entire United States in the period 1947-1977.

Data Types:
administrative records data,
aggregate data

Data Collection Notes:

This data file includes both state and county records. Records for counties in each state are listed immediately following the state record. All records have the same structure, and the identifier for each record includes both state and the county codes. In the state records, the county code is listed as 000.

Methodology

Time Method:
Longitudinal

Mode of Data Collection:
record abstracts

Data Source:

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the
Census. COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOKS. Washington, DC: United States
Government Printing Office, 1947-1977.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1984-06-20

Version History:

2012-09-18 The data have been checked and corrected for inconsistencies, and have been reformatted to one record per case. SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files have been updated. SPSS and Stata system files and a SAS transport (CPORT) file have been added to the collection. The codebook has been updated.

2008-04-01 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files have
been added to this data collection.